Elena Verna

@elena-verna · 39 positions · On ppll ↗

Leads growth at Lovable; previously led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.

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design 6

For now AI is best thought of as average intelligence, which is still very powerful to have across every specialty.
Organisations that filter information down through management layers must instead trust their people and let information flow to them.

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startups 5

As search turns into an AI interface, a company with no earned acquisition channel on its roadmap is in serious trouble within one to two years.
A growth team's ceiling is a ten to fifteen percent lift, which is never enough to reverse a company that is already sliding.

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management 4

Switching between managing and individual-contributor work is nearly impossible, so people have to pick one path.
If the AI change is real, individual contributors should be paid more than managers.

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hiring 3

Hiring a head of growth to reverse a declining business is destined to fail, because the cause of the decline is deeper than the missing team.
Whether a company hires sales or growth first is decided by how it collects money, not by how big it is.

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ambition 2

Success in growth is the output of a lot of failures, so the real constraint is how much time you have left to fail in.
With AI, a builder needs exceptional craft in only one or two areas and good-enough work everywhere else.

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